(Peter Parker x reader) Romeo and Juliet

36: Riding

"You're riding with us," Liz deadpanned.

I looked between her, Peter, her dad, and her dad's car. "Nah. It's your date. You two have fun."

Peter gave me a 'you come or I'll kill you' look.

So here I am sitting in the front seat of Liz's dad's car.

They're in the back.

I'm already high on nerves, shaking and quivering  cause I'm sitting right next to the Vulture.

The problem with looking as unique as I do is that people don't often misplace you.

I'm always identified easily.

And if I'm identified as the Widow Maker or Black Skull or even Winter Star, millions of people will chant 'kill her! Kill her!' and I'll be in trouble.

So when Liz's dad eyeballed me and Peter through the mirror, I knew he was piecing things together.

"What're you gonna do, Pete?" Her dad asked.

I froze.

I heard Peter's distressed tone. "What?"

"When you graduate," he clarified. "What do you think you'll do?"

I relaxed a bit.

"Oh. I don't know," Peter answered.

Truth was, we'd both been undecided for a while.

"Don't grill him dad," Liz said without looking up from her phone.

"What about you?" He asked me.

"Tbd," I answered.

"I'm just saying, you know. All you guys who go to that school, you pretty much have your life planned out, right?" He pressed on.

I fiddled with the bow on my chest out of pure nerves.

Peter shuffled behind me, and I resisted reached my hand back for his. "Yeah, no, I'm just a sophomore."

I was too. But I didn't think he wanted my input, I'm not the one taking his daughter to homecoming.

"Peter has an internship with Tony Stark," Liz said. Once again, she was still on her phone. "I think he doesn't have to worry."

Neither Peter nor I had the guts to sit together on our phones.

When Liz said this, I cringed. She's an idiot.

"Really? Stark?" Liz's dad made eye contact with Peter in the rear view mirror.

"So cool." Liz was so useless in my opinion, and she really wasn't helping.

I gulped.

"What do you do?" Her dad asked.

Peter swallowed almost as hard as I did. "Yeah, actually, I don't intern for him anymore."

I was beginning to feel even more uneasy.

After all, I'd noticed the gun Liz's dad had placed under my seat.

"Seriously?" Liz responded to Peter's statement.

I kept my eyes on the road.

"Yeah it got.....boring," Peter said with a false grin.

I closed my eyes. Oh the idiot.

"It was boring? You got to hang out with SpiderMan."

I opened my eyes quickly. Nevermind, Liz was the idiot.